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Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz 
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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